| 释义 |
esculent, a. and n.|ˈɛskjʊlənt|
[ad. L. esculent-us, f. esca food.]
A. adj.
1. Suitable for food, eatable.
1626Bacon Sylva §630 A Number of Herbs are not Esculent at all. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 238 The gardens afford good supplies of the best esculent vegetables. 1813Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) III. 471 Esculent Snail. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol x. (1828) I. 310 The order Aptera does not much more abound in esculent insects than the Diptera. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iv. 66 Onions and cabbage appear to have been the only esculent vegetables.
¶ confused use.
1813Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) II. 212 The Esculent Swallow. The nest of this bird is edible.
2. absol. quasi-n.
1626Bacon Sylva (1631) § 474 In Plants, where the Root is the Esculent, as Radish, and Parsnips.
B. n. Anything that is eatable, or fit for food; esp. vegetables.
1625Massinger New Way iv. ii, A piece of Suffolk cheese, or gammon of bacon, Or any esculent, as the learned call it. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. Esculents, by which is to be understood Plants for Food. 1754Dodsley Agric. ii, His various esculents, from glowing beds Give the fair promise of delicious feasts. 1863Ball in N. & Q. Ser. iii. IV. 193 The 4th of August was the period when the juicy esculent could be first enjoyed. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 25 The varieties of palm furnished..an esculent something like the cabbage. |